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Free Schools, Free People: Education and Democracy After the 1960s
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Free Schools, Free People: Education and Democracy After the 1960s Paperback - 2002

by Ronald J. Miller


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This first historical account of the free school movement of the 1960s documents the formation of hundreds of small, independent schools across the United States that marked a turning point in American education. The book revisits and interprets the radical democratic educational vision behind those schools through the works of some of the authors of that time such as John Holt, A. S. Neill, Paul Goodman, and George Dennison. These authors--and the thousands of educators, parents, and young people who took part in the free school movement--passionately advocated for students' intellectual and psychological freedom, and for their autonomy and individuality in a society they saw as increasingly standardized and corporately managed. Although free school ideology was renounced during the conservative restoration of the 1970s and 1980s, and the once popular literature is now largely forgotten, Miller argues that radical educational critique is especially relevant in today's educational climate, in light of the standards movement, high stakes testing, school violence and its suppression, and corporate influence over the curriculum.

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  • Title Free Schools, Free People: Education and Democracy After the 1960s
  • Author Ronald J. Miller
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher State University of New York Press, Herndon, Virginia, U.S.A.
  • Date July 2002
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780791454206 / 0791454207
  • Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.96 x 6.04 x 0.52 in (22.76 x 15.34 x 1.32 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Holt, John Caldwell, Education - Social aspects - United States -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001049355
  • Dewey Decimal Code 371.040

About the author

Ron Miller is President of the Foundation for Educational Renewal and the editor of Educational Freedom for a Democratic Society: A Critique of National Standards, Goals and Curriculum.
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